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[flyingchicken]

guh too many bad arts

be back maybe when I'm better :0

[Domochevsky]

Well, i can say that the water colors are pretty nice, at least. :smallsmile:

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[Domochevsky]

Looks like your cousin has potential. :smallbiggrin: (Well, you too, but you know that. :smallwink: )

...man, calling that jacket "bloodstained" isn't even getting close to describing it.

Edit: Just saw the post edit above it: that one works definitely better, but the hip shape on the right side looks kinda weird, seeing how low it curves.)

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[Domochevsky]

...man, i don't even know. I got nuthin. :|

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[Domochevsky]

The faces are improving. I approve. :smallsmile:

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today's doodles, Remilia Scarlet:
http://i.imgur.com/gfuvENR.png
http://i.imgur.com/3w4hS8X.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/yC1dLC1.png

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[Domochevsky]

so the comick page last post took 2 hours (!) to make, this is all +1 hour netted me:
http://i.imgur.com/P6NnYF6.png

Nice, but has the issue that the bottom left panel isn't inside the uh "reading flow line", as it were. As a reader you kinda skip right past it from "my face" to "what's wrong with you". :smallsmile:

[flyingchicken]

that's true, I should move "my face" down

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[mistformsquirrl]

Your pandagirl is ridiculously adorable FC <>_<> Nice work!

[flyingchicken]

Your pandagirl is ridiculously adorable FC <>_<> Nice work!thank you--not my character though, it is the amazing ken ashcorp (www.youtube.com/user/kenashcorp)'s

[mistformsquirrl]

Well, awesome fanart is still awesome <^_^> So we'll go with that.

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[SiuiS]

just because I spent.... >12 hours to--yesterday on a bus/train/car doesn't mean I couldn't drawwwrrr~!
http://i.imgur.com/bHrZCZx.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/KkKhBXh.jpg

Wow. Inspiring!

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[Domochevsky]

...
and a... political cartoon?
http://i.imgur.com/NhizERD.png

Whelp, glad we have this now. That should be usable for a while. :)

(But who's this panda girl I see you drawing repeatedly...)

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[SiuiS]

haha glad you think so :0 but if you're looking for inspiration I suggest making a bookmark folder of all the awesome artists you want to draw like/really like regardless!

Nah, that requires, like, a computer all the time. I'll do that after I get a tablet and stuff.

In the meantime! I'll just abstract things into pseudo mathematical expressions and apply them! :D

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[SiuiS]

intermittent doodles from the past few days; I need a spark v_v
http://i.imgur.com/CkbGnc8.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/htNZ22I.jpg

"In-high", huh? That's the medial malleolus, with the lateral one being exterior. A fun bony protruberance, that.

Spark?

Wide angle picture; central, stepping out of the boxes, a hound-woman. Based on a saluki, long floppy ears that look like pigtails. Wears a business suit, strutting. Sunglasses, a black & white bandanna around the right bicep, and wearing "bling", poorly. Behind, left side; a short long haired blond Caucasian wearing the bandana, dressed like a cholo and smiling. Behind her, unfocused perhaps, a combination cheer leader/body builder, also fair. A brute, but a good looking one. Other side, right of central figure, six foot six vengeful angel-figure, arms crossed, bandanna at throat. Cold, hard, angular, beautiful. Hair in a mass of waves like a pale corona.
All figures save striding hound woman are within letterbox.

Bonus points for making it look like they are pretending to be a successful gang.

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[SiuiS]

Your saluki is pretty much dead on as far as I can concieve. Kudos!
I also like the other figures, they jive well with my mental state. We have achieved sympathetic resonance it seems.

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[SiuiS]

I've been stealing your pictures for dissection later for color stuffs.

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[Domochevsky]

...yeah, now that you mention it, that hair does look like an apple. >_>

(I can't quite tell where the hair ends and the face starts...)

Interesting stuff in here. Also weird. The way you chose to draw mouths is throwing me for a loop. :smallsmile:

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[SiuiS]

Well, just to nudge you in what I think is the right direction (I could be wrong or confused), and to collect my thoughts on the matter too I guess... If you remember that wall of text about color I posted in the Ponythread learns thread, jumping off of that a bit: choosing colors begins by ignoring colors and focusing on values/lightness (which is why a lot of introductory art courses tackle color, as most people know it, very late or not at all, or so I've heard--I also hear some art courses don't even tackle color until the later years of their formal study); having a good grasp of values means you're able to render forms and stuff more effectively, and is a compositional consideration as well I think (I don't know much about that though).

I've been doing "weird" colored paintings for a few reasons: one, I think grayscale value studies are boooring; two, it helps me focus on values anyway since I don't have preconceived notions about how things are supposed to be colored; three, a bit hard for me to explain, I like to think there is a "pleasingness" to colors and pictures, related to complements and the like, as well as variety, and using weird colors sort of loosens me up to more varied coloring, hue and saturation-wise, since I tend to color dully and I'd like to change that.

As a final, tangential note: contrast is usually related to values (brightness & contrast, that sort of thing), but there's also contrasts in saturation and hues: I'm not sure if this is always true, but I've read that "warm" hues tend to "pop out" and the "cool" hues the opposite; then, of course, higher saturation catches the eye more than lower saturation, and can be used to create contrasts for focusing on stuff on a piece (beginning and bad artists, as I've said before I think, tend to either use either high-saturation colors everywhere--a childish garishness--or the opposite--muddy dull and brown; now, the former is hard to forgive I think, and the latter you can rely on value contrasts, but many people are tired of it--see, "gray and brown and bloom" in some video games)... and by saturation, I meant chroma really, since high-value high saturation colors can be lower chroma, letting people make beautiful pastelly art (on my mind atm is Cucumber Quest's art, which is just lovely).

I'm not really in a level of authority to say those things authoritatively, but for now I believe them to be true; also, maybe I've already said all that in the aforementioned prior post, but I think it's worth reiterating.

Sounds about right; I have nothing even looking at or like a formal education on art, but I've heard the different schools of thought are soulless technical skill, or "do whatever you want and I wont judge you because its aaaarrrrttttt". The first one is hard but results in better skill, supposedly.


what's confusing about the mouths? also yeah, it's a bit indistinct at the hair, maybe I should've lightened the hair start and gradated away darker

You kinda just throw them on to where they look about appropriate, but it fits the style and shows an ingrained understanding.

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[SiuiS]

The sword stroke is too even. You would be accelerating for the first 3/4 and decelerating on the last; movement speed is a slanted bell curve. If you tween a sword stroke or use even spacing between layers, it will look artificial.

Nice painting; I'm jealous.

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[flyingchicken]

clean slate! sort of

I'm abandoning this thread haha

sometimes looking back, you just feel bad about your drawings

[SiuiS]

Well, dang. I hoped I saved the few in the last batch I liked.

It's been a fun and educational run, for me at least. Thanks!

[Domochevsky]

Wait what? What happened? >_>

[flyingchicken]

Wait what? What happened? >_>nothing really, I'm just appraising my art then and now and I found it so lacking I'd rather not have them floating about willy-nilly--it just marks another season of learning for me, I hope


Well, dang. I hoped I saved the few in the last batch I liked.

It's been a fun and educational run, for me at least. Thanks!haha, glad you found it useful to some degree

[SiuiS]

Wait what? What happened? >_>

Aye, I was waiting for updates and then thought "Maybe he edited some into an old post to not double post?" XD

Best of luck to you, friend! Be well!